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With a TogetherGreen Innovation Grant, Audubon Minnesota and its partners are working with young people, members of the Mille-Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Eagle Scouts, and more to provide nesting and roosting sites for Chimney Swifts, American Kestrels, and Purple Martins around the Twin Cities region. All three bird species have suffered dramatic population declines in recent years.

Mass Audubon and Groundwork Lawrence have worked to engage Lawrence, MA residents with the Spicket River Greenway, an "emerald bracelet" of green spaces and walking paths connecting parks and open space through multiple neighborhoods, and worked with citizens to reduce human impacts on the environment. They have also reached out to diverse and under-served audiences to get them involved in conservation.

Mass Audubon and Groundwork Lawrence have worked to engage Lawrence, MA residents with the Spicket River Greenway, an "emerald bracelet" of green spaces and walking paths connecting parks and open space through multiple neighborhoods, and worked with citizens to reduce human impacts on the environment. They have also reached out to diverse and under-served audiences to get them involved in conservation.

With an emergency grant from TogetherGreen, Wildcat Glades Conservation and Audubon Center was able to provide kids in need with free camps and nature programs throughout the summer. As the year progresses, they’ll also be able to provide kids from high-poverty schools with valuable educational programs focused on water quality and conservation.

The recently protected 900-acre Heart K Ranch in California’s Genesee Valley is a Sierra Nevada treasure, boasting scenic mountain beauty and a rich historical and cultural past. It is perhaps the most species-diverse property in the Feather River Watershed, supporting 26 species of conservation concern. It is also of great importance to the local Mountain Maidu people.

The Maidu Indians of Genesee Valley are a federally unrecognized tribe. During the Gold Rush, land reservation treaties were left unratified, leaving the Maidu landless and in danger of losing cultural knowledge and practices. The Feather River Land Trust is exploring the creation of cultural conservation easements to protect and promote Maidu engagement on the Heart K Ranch in perpetuity.

With a TogetherGreen planning grant, Plumas Audubon Society will partner with the Feather River Land Trust and Mountain Maidu community to plan stewardship and restoration activities on the Heart K Ranch that incorporate Maidu Traditional Ecological Knowledge.